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Ludwig Van Beethoven
Number of words: 564 - Number of pages: 3.... jealousy caused the problems. D. Other teachers Beethoven turned to other teachers when Haydn went to London for the second time. He studied with Albrechtsberger, famous as a choir director at St. Stephens in Vienna and the best-known counterpoint teacher in Vienna. He then studied Salieri, famous in Mozart's biography. Salieri helped Beethoven in setting Italian words to music. IV. Establishment as pianist and composer His first task in Vienna was to establish himself as pianist and composer. He achieved both rapidly. A. Aristocracy He had worked for a court in Bonn so his first contacts w .....
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Anne Moody
Number of words: 916 - Number of pages: 4.... Moody entered high school, Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old boy from Chicago, was killed for whistling at a white woman. “Emmett Till’s murder had proved it was a crime, punishable by death, for a Negro man to even whistle at a white woman in Mississippi.” Although her mother refused to give an explanation of the organization, Moody learned about the NAACP from one of her teachers soon after the incident. It was at age fifteen that Moody really began to hate people. Not only did she hate the whites that committed the murders, but she also hated the blacks for allowing the horrid a .....
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Sammy Sosa The Super Hero
Number of words: 956 - Number of pages: 4.... super star. All season long he along with Mark McGuire and Ken Griffey Jr. made the much more exciting with their neck and neck, nose to nose run for the title
of home run king. Both of them ended up breaking the Major League record and both of them had excellent seasons. Sammy established career highs in batting average, home runs, RBIs, runs scored, hits and walks. He also led the majors in RBIs, runs scored, and total basses. He hit sixty-six home runs the second most in a single season (second behind McGuire's seventy-one). He was named NL MVP by a large margin of votes over Ma .....
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Francois Viete
Number of words: 1103 - Number of pages: 5.... for his charge on variety an of topics about science. The first scientific work dates were all from this period. It involves topics, which would continue to occupy him throughout his life. In 1571, he began publication of his track. It was intended to form a preliminary mathematical part of a major study on the Ptolemaic astronomical model. He continued to embrace the Ptolemaic (Parshall 1).
The service to Catherine's noble family took him to La Rochelle, ultimately then to Paris. In 1573, he came under the eye of King Charles IX. He appointed him as counselor to the parliament of Brittan .....
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Andrew Carnegie The Rise Of Bi
Number of words: 1249 - Number of pages: 5.... So, they borrowed the money for the voyage from Scotland to New York in the hopes of having a fresh start. Losing everything they had didn't sit well with Andrew or his mother. The family left in shame and determined to make it in there new environment. Upon arriving they immediately set out for work. Will found door-to-door work with a loom, Margaret with shoe binding, and Andrew found work as a bobbin boy in a local textile mill. Andrew was a hard worker and had the ability to adapt to any type of work. He was offered a job as a messenger boy for a telegraph company and he jumped at the o .....
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Napoleon 2
Number of words: 810 - Number of pages: 3.... Laws. Many of the laws set up, were based on his knowledge of the Enlightenment. He simplified the laws of old as well as new, and allowed freedom of speech and press. His main idea with these laws was to give all men equal rights. Women were also included into several laws. Another accomplishment was shown through religion. Though he supported Catholicism and declared the majority of the French people were Catholics, he affirmed religious tolerance for all.
Though many accomplishments were shown in government as well as religion, Napoleon’s main interests were focused on building a .....
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Lucille Ball
Number of words: 1128 - Number of pages: 5.... so successful and popular that, "the 1953 episode on which she gave birth to 'Little Ricky'. . . was said to attract more viewers than the concurrent inauguration of President Dwight D Eisenhower" (Biography 1). Her impact was so great that even today, everyone knows that "Lucy Ricardo, of course, achieved eternal life" (Brady 342).
Prior to her television success, she also had much success on her radio show My Favorite Husband. The show was a comedy based on based on "the delightful stories of Isobel Scott Rorick's gay, sophisticated Mr. & Mrs. Cugat, starring with Richard .....
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Princess Diana
Number of words: 808 - Number of pages: 3.... with the fact that she is no different then you and I. This may seem like a feeble task, but to a princess, it is a task accomplished by few. Diana broke all traditions embellished into the minds of the modern day royals. She showed her two young sons love and compassion in public, never before done by a member of the royal family. Diana touched the publics heart by indulging in every day activities, in order to recognize with the public. In doing this, the public was able to relate to her. Society began to realize that the Princess was indeed human.
However, the fairy tale life of the .....
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Richard Wright
Number of words: 731 - Number of pages: 3.... autobiography, he recalls a familiar childhood event: "I
would feel hunger nudging my ribs, twisting my empty guts until they ached.
I would grow dizzy and my vision would dim."
In Black Boy, Wright used his own life to exemplify what qualities of
imagination and intellect are necessary of a southern African-American in
order to understand the meaning of his life in the United States. Black
Boy also reveals it's 'author hero' as a man controlled by an absolute
certainty of his own virtues.
The ethics of living Jim Crow require that Wright be obedient and
silent. So althoug .....
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James Buchanan
Number of words: 675 - Number of pages: 3.... in 1814. But the war of 1812 was growing fast. The British Had just
burned down Washingto D.C. James volunteered to serve his country so he joined a
calvary company. Buchanan returned for the election and won a seat in
legislature in 1814. He served another term and returnd to Lancaster.
James Buchanan became a popular person in Lancaster and was invited
to many partys and dinners. At one party he met a girl named Ann Coleman. They
later got engaged. In the spring of 1819 there were rumors that James was seeing
another girl. Ann got upset and went to stay with her sister in Phila .....
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